Drupal user_external_login_register

Question

The documentation reads:

Helper function for authentication modules. Either login in or registers the current user, based on username. Either way, the global $user object is populated based on $name.

It seems to me that this function does not actually perform a login (it does not trigger the user_hook with op=login. It does not call user_external_login or even user_authenticate_finalize.

Am I interpreting it wrong?

Answer 1

I looked through the code, and it doesn't invoke hook_user() op = 'login'. You can do that in your own module though.

Look at user_module_invoke() to do this.